Remembering Dio
25 May
I know this is a week late, but I must join the chorus singing the funeral hymn for Ronnie James Dio. Dio was a little man with a big voice and, apparently, a heart of gold: his most enduring addition to the metal lexicon, the devil horns, was a gesture he lifted off his superstitious grandmother. By the time Dio joined Black Sabbath in 1979 he was 37 years old, which means that for most of his career he was probably the oldest guy in the arena. I mention this only to point out that for Dio, it wasn’t a gag- he was an old dude rocking out unironically, one of a dying breed. He also has a street named after him in the town where he grew up (Dio Way, Cortland NY), which kind of makes me want to move upstate. RIP Ronnie.
